 Robert Peel had a great deficiency ; he was without imagination. Wanting imagination, he wanted prescience. No one was more sagacious when dealing with the circumstances before him ; no one penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy. His...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3021852Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1852 - 652 pages
...penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy. His judgment was faultless provided he had not to deal with the future. Thus it happened through his...little foreseeing that often in the very triumph of his manoeuvres he found himself in an untenable position. And so it came to pass that roman catholic emancipation,... | |
 | 1852 - 1202 pages
...penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy. His judgment was faultless, provided he had not to deal with the future. Thus it happened through his...concluded his campaigns by surrendering at discretion. Be was so adroit that he could prolong resistance even beyond its term, but so little foreseeing, that... | |
 | University magazine - 1852 - 818 pages
...more acuteness *nd accuracy. His judgment was faultless, provided he had not to deal with the fut are. Thus it happened through his long career, that while...was looked upon as the most prudent and safest of leader?, ho ever, after a protracted display of admirable tactics, concluded his campaigns by surrendering... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy. His judgment was faultless, provided he had not to deal with the future. Thus it happened through his long career, that while he was always looked upon as the most prudent, and the safest of leaders, he ever, after a prostrated... | |
 | Alfred Elwes - 1872 - 306 pages
...term fcf;lag. » Turn thus — while by ' thecce upon1 as the most prudent and safest of leaders,2 he ever, after a protracted display of admirable tactics, concluded his campaigns by surrendering at discretion.3 — B. DISRAELI, Lord George Bentinck. A BALL AT4 THE BASTILLE. It was now near mid-winter,5... | |
 | Carl Adolf Buchheim - 1868 - 296 pages
...term fchlag. 2° Turn thus — white by ' thtrcoe upon 1 as the most prudent and safest of leaders, 2 he ever, after a protracted display of admirable tactics,...concluded his campaigns by surrendering at discretion. 3 —B. Lord George Bentinck. A BALL AT 4 THE BASTILLE. It was now near mid-winter, 5 and the weather... | |
 | Cornelius Donovan - 1870 - 232 pages
...penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy. His judgment was faultless, provided he had not to deal with the future. Thus it happened through his...protracted display of admirable tactics, concluded his campaign by surrendering at discretion." Men with small " Ideality" are all the more likely to be bores... | |
 | Carl Adolf Buchheim - 1874 - 320 pages
...ttcfet. 19 Provided — with, transl. uorau3» 119 upon1 as the most prudent and safest of leaders,2 he ever, after a protracted display of admirable tactics, concluded his campaigns by surrendering at discretion.3 — B. DISRAELI, Lord George Bentinck. A BALL AT4 THE BASTILLE. It was now near mid-winter,5... | |
 | Carl Adolf Buchheim - 1876 - 320 pages
...inn...lniiittltc. * Turn tJius — while by 'therco upon1 as the most prudent and safest of leaders,2 he evei, after a protracted display of admirable tactics, concluded his campaigns by surrendering at discretion.3 — B. DISRAELI, Lord George Bentinck. A BALL AT* THE BASTILLE. It was now near mid-winter,5... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - 736 pages
...penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy. His judgment was faultless, provided he had not to deal with the future. Thus it happened through his...term, but so little foreseeing that often in the very trinmph of his manoenvres he found himself in an untenable position. And so it came to pass that Roman... | |
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